Great expectations
the sons and daughters of Charles Dickens
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2012 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25223535M
- ISBN-139780374298807
- OCLC Control Number778074340
- OCLC Control Numbergreatexpectation0000gott
- Library of Congress Control Number2012004997
Classifications
- DDC823/.8
- LCCPR4582 .G88 2012
Description
Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created--from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield--was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened to those children is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb's Great Expectations. With sympathy and understanding he narrates the highly various and surprising stories of each of Dickens's sons and daughters, from Kate, who became a successful artist, to Frank, who died in Moline, Illinois, after serving a grim stretch in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Each of these lives is fascinating on its own; together they comprise a unique window on Victorian England as well as a moving and disturbing study of Dickens as a father and as a man.--From publisher description.
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